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Donald McNicol Sutherland OC Order of Canada

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  is a prolific Scottish-Canadian actor Actor

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 with a film career spanning over 40 years.

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 and Donald Sutherland.



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Donald McNicol Sutherland OC Order of Canada

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  is a prolific Scottish-Canadian actor Actor

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 with a film career spanning over 40 years.

Biography


Early life

Sutherland was born in Saint John Saint John, New Brunswick

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, New Brunswick New Brunswick

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 to Dorothy McNichol and Frederick Sutherland, who was in charge of the local bus Bus

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, gas and electricity Electricity

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 company; his maternal grandfather was a Protestant minister. Sutherland, of Scottish Scotland

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 descent, grew up in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia Nova Scotia

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. He got his first part time job aged 14 as a news correspondent for local radio station CKBW Radio in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia. He then studied at Victoria College Victoria University in the University of Toronto

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, University of Toronto University of Toronto

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  eventually graduating with a double major in engineering and drama. He had, at one point, been a member of "UC Follies" comedy troupe in Toronto. He changed his mind about becoming an engineer and subsequently left Canada for England England

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 to study at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art

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.

Acting career

In the early 1960s, he began to get small parts in British United Kingdom

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 film and TV, in the mid 1960s getting notable roles in horror film Film

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s with Christopher Lee Christopher Lee

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 such as Castle of the Living Dead , and Dr. Terror's House of Horrors Dr. Terror's House of Horrors

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. His first great successes came with the three war films The Dirty Dozen The Dirty Dozen

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in 1967 with Lee Marvin Lee Marvin

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 and Charles Bronson Charles Bronson

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, in 1970 as the lead Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce Hawkeye Pierce

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 in Robert Altman Robert Altman

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's M*A*S*H and as tank commander Sgt. Oddball in Kelly's Heroes Kelly's Heroes

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with Clint Eastwood Clint Eastwood

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 and Telly Savalas Telly Savalas

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. Sutherland had an intimate relationship , with actress Jane Fonda Jane Fonda

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, during the filming of the Academy award Academy Awards

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-winning detective thriller Klute .

Sutherland and Fonda went on to co-produce and star together in the anti-Vietnam war film F.T.A. consisting of a series of sketches performed outside army bases in the Pacific Rim Pacific Rim

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 and interviews with the American troops who were then on active service. Sutherland found himself in demand as a leading man throughout the 1970s in films such as the Venice Venice

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 based psychological horror Don't Look Now , the war film The Eagle Has Landed The Eagle Has Landed

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, and as the ever optimistic health inspector in the sci-fi Science fiction

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 horror Invasion of the Body Snatchers alongside Brooke Adams Brooke Adams

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 and Jeff Goldblum Jeff Goldblum

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. He also had a small role as the pot-smoking Professor Dave Jennings in National Lampoon's Animal House National Lampoon's Animal House

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 in 1978.

He also made acclaimed performances in the 1976 Bernardo Bertolucci Bernardo Bertolucci

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 Italian Italy

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 fascism epic 1900 1900

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and for his role as the torn father in the Academy award Academy Awards

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 winning family drama Ordinary People Ordinary People

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alongside Mary Tyler Moore Mary Tyler Moore

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 and Timothy Hutton Timothy Hutton

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.

He played the part of fellow countryman, Canadian Canada

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 Norman Bethune Norman Bethune

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, a physician, humanitarian and hero in China China

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 with whom he identified, in two separate biographical Biography

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 films in 1977 and 1990. Through the 1980s and 1990s his films were perhaps less noteworthy than those in the 1970s, exceptions being the South African South Africa

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 apartheid drama A Dry White Season alongside Marlon Brando Marlon Brando

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 and Susan Sarandon Susan Sarandon

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, the fire fighter thriller Backdraft alongside Kurt Russell Kurt Russell

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 and De Niro Robert De Niro

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, and as the snobbish NYC New York

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 art dealer in Six Degrees of Separation with Stockard Channing Stockard Channing

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 and Will Smith Will Smith

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.

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 film, JFK, Sutherland played a mysterious Washington intelligence officer who spoke of links to the military-industrial complex in relation to Kennedy's assassination.

Recently he has been noted for his role as the Reverend Monroe in the civil war drama Cold Mountain , in the re-make of The Italian Job The Italian Job

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, and in Pride and Prejudice Pride and Prejudice

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starring alongside Keira Knightley Keira Knightley

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.

In July 2006, he picked up an Emmy Emmy Award

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 nomination for his performance in the TV movie "Human Trafficking".

Sutherland's distinctive voice has been used in many radio and television commercials, including those for Volvo Volvo

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 automobiles.

Personal life

He was married to actresses Lois Hardwick and Shirley Douglas Shirley Douglas

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 , the daughter of Canadian democratic socialist statesman Tommy Douglas Tommy Douglas

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. They had twins born in 1966, a daughter Rachel and a son Kiefer Sutherland Kiefer Sutherland

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 .

He met his current wife, the French-Canadian actress Francine Racette , on the set of the Canadian pioneer drama Alien Thunder . They have three sons :

  • Roeg Sutherland
  • Rossif
  • Angus Redford Sutherland


Donald Sutherland was made an Officer of the Order of Canada Order of Canada

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 in 1978.

Trivia


  • Sutherland played Kate Bush Kate Bush

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    's father in the video for her song Cloudbusting.


  • Height: 6'4"


  • Either dislikes the smell of cigarette smoke or it may be a medical irritant. In an article promoting Pride & Prejudice, Rosamund Pike Rosamund Pike

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     claims she "was privileged to be able to chat to Donald Sutherland on set - because she is not a smoker. She says, 'I don't smoke so I was able to come within a hundred metres of him unlike other people on the set - no one can smoke within a hundred metres of him'" .


  • When offered the choice of a flat $40,000 fee or a percentage of the gross on National Lampoon's Animal House National Lampoon's Animal House

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    , he chose the former option - which he conceded has cost him millions.

Filmography



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